I Blame Robert Peston

how come a couple of years ago when FarepakHampers collapsed leaving a few thousand people short what amounts to the sort of money the government loses down the back of the settee, although it was a terrible shame an' all that, nothing (bar a bit of handwringing) could be done about it? Yet now - all of a sudden - if you're unfortunate enough to have had over £50,000 in savings in a collapsed Icelandic bank well, not to worry, we'll bail you out ...